Type-writing machine



(NO Model.)

A. HITT.

TYPB WRITING MAGHINE. r

No. 455,748. atented July '14., 1891.

3'0 regulatin g the line-spacing.

UNITED STATES PATENT OEFICE.

ADRIAN I-IITT, OF JERSEY CITY, NE\V JERSEY.

TYPE-WRITING MACHINE,

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 455,748, dated July 14, 1891.

Application filed February 4, 1889. Serial No. 298,656. (No model.) l

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADRIAN HIT-r, a citizen of the United States, residing at Jersey City,

My invention relates to improvenents in 'caligraphs or type-Writers; and it consists in the raising of the two spacing-pawls with one lever, and thus holding them while' the paper to be written or printed on is adjusted to the impression-rol-ler. I attain this obj ect by the ,nechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which- 4 Figure l is the improved part of the machine with the pawls down on the ratchet- Wheel. Fig. 2 is a View showing the lever raised, holding up the two pawls. Fig. 3 is a top view with the handle of the iever removed and showing a part of the impression-rolier.

v Similar letters refer to si milar parts throughout the several Views.

A in Fig. 1 is the usuai lever that gives the space between the lines.

B is-the pawl on lever A,that works on the ratchet-wh'eel E E.

C is a pivoted arm bearing the holding-pawl C', and F is the arn of the nsual eccentric for It is seen, therefore, that on raising lever A it forces pawl B to revolve* ratchet-wheel E E one 01' more notches under the pawl C', which holds ratchet-wheel E E till pawl B on leverA can take a new hold on ratchet-wheel E E. Now to liberate ratchet-wheel E E it is necessary to raise pawls B and O', as in Fig. 2, which is done by raising lever G, the pawls B and C' resting on a fiattened pin K, seeured to lever G. Lever G is pivoted to lug H by pin I, the lug H being cast or otherwise snngly secured onto the caligraph s or type-Writers frame D -D, lever G having a lug J on it to bear against lug H to prevent it from going back too far.

I an aware that' there are-pawls or ratchets that are. raised by levers, but not on' type- Writers'.

Now What I clain as my invention, a nd desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

In atype-Writing nachine, the conbination, with the impre'ssion-roller, ratchet-wheel, and the pawls engaging therewith, of a nanipulating-lever bearinga pin adapted and arranged to raise said pawis out of engagenent with the ratchet-wheel when in a vertical position, said lever being provided with a stop near its pivoted extrenity, substantially as shown and described.

ADRIAN I-IIT'R l VVtnesses:

A. A. THOMPSON, S. W. SEARING. 

